LIVE LIKE THE FLOWERS

Live like the flowers

In
an ancient Buddhist monastery, a young monk asks the Master, Master,
how do I not bother? Some people talk too much, others
are ignorant, many are indifferent.

I hate the liars and those who suffer with slander.

For live like the flowers, directed the master.

And how to live like the flowers? - Asked the disciple.

Look at the flowers, the master said, pointing to the lilies that grew in the garden.

They are born in dung, however, are pure and fragrant.
Extract, compost smelly, all they have is useful and healthy ... but
do not let the bitterness of earth stick the freshness of its petals.

It's just fidget with their own imperfections, but it is not wise to allow the vices of others to disturb.

Defects of them are theirs and not yours.

If your are not, there is no reason for annoyance.

Exercise, therefore, the virtue of rejecting all evil from outside.


This is to live like the flowers.

In a simple direction, no doubt, a great and noble lesson of living well.

But to live like the flowers, you must also look at other features that they offer us as an example.

Important to note that not all facilities have flowers, but all have something in common: bloom where planted.

Be in hostile terrain, amid boulders or in gardens
technically well-tended, the flowers appear to scent and beautify the
life.

There are flowers heroines who must fight with courage for
a place in the sun. Are those that come in tiny cracks, open
on sidewalks or concrete walls.

Need to find, with firmness and determination, a space to sprout, grow and flourish.

There are flowers whose seeds are ground under the scorching
wilderness for many years, hoping one day become the raindrops
can emerge ...

And then come for a few days, only to spread your perfume
and launch new ground seeds, which germinate and grow to their
time.

In snow-covered fields, there are flowers waiting for the sun
spring melt the ice to awaken from their lethargy and color the
landscape, the exuberance of colors and perfumes.

Ah! As the flowers know how to perform superbly mission entrusted to them by the Creator!

There are also flowers resigned, who sacrificed himself in an attempt
make less sad the funeral ceremonies of human beings ...
crowns adorning lifeless.

Live like the flowers, so it is much more than knowing withdraw life, beauty and fragrance, manure ...

It's more than flourish in arid deserts and inhospitable terrain ...

It is more than looking for a place in the sun, being in a dark cave under concrete ranks ...

It's more than endure the pruning and respond more and more exuberant life ...

Live like the flowers is to understand and execute the mission that falls to
you, the most valuable and beautiful creature of God, to whom all the flowers
were created ...

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Flowers are one of the most beautiful and delicate forms of expression of the Divine Artist of nature.

It would seem that the Creator designed them and put them in the world
to tell us of the greatness of His love for us, as well as lessons
silence to show us how to flower and fruit, for all
obstacles of the journey ...

Think about it, and imitate the flowers!